Teamsters Told `Clean House`

May 20, 1986|United Press International

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- Labor Secretary Bill Brock, addressing the Teamsters just three days after President Jackie Presser was charged with fraud, said Monday the union must ``clean house`` as the Republican Party was forced to do following the Watergate scandal.

In the hardest-hitting speech of his tenure as labor secretary, Brock asked: ``Are there areas where good people have been silent too long -- where it`s just plain time to clean house? If so, do it.``

Presser, expected to be easily re-elected to a five-year term despite his federal indictment, said angrily after Brock left the convention hall that the federal charges were wrong and he would be vindicated.